Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A feature, or ...?

Would "Select All" (CTRL-A), Menu->Format->Clear Direct Formatting 
(CTRL-M) not work for you?

On 11/27/2013 05:45 PM, pbw wrote:
> It's a bug, or, if you prefer, a missing vital feature.
>
> The problem:
>
> If you have a document filled with paragraph formatting which has been
> applied directly using a paragraph style menu, any styles you define and
> apply as a style will be overridden by the direct formatting previously
> applied.  There is no way that I have found to remove it, except by a manual
> change using the paragraph style menu.  That fixes my problem, but passes
> the same problem on to the next person who wants to change the paragraph
> styling.
>
> I have just had to do this.  The document was an imported Word .doc, but the
> principle seems to apply everywhere.
>
> How to fix it:
> Add Format menu items "Clear all paragraph/character(/list?) formatting." It
> doesn't actually remove all formatting, but applies a default format which
> clear all the problem formats and allows a style to be cleanly applied.
>
> List formatting is such a delicate matter that I don't know whether a clear
> all list formatting operation would cause more trouble than it's worth.
>
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